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by: Hugh. Brogan
Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9781861975096
Format: Import
ISBN: 1861975090
Label: Profile Books,
Manufacturer: Profile Books,
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: 2006
Publisher: Profile Books,
Sales Rank: 678414
Studio: Profile Books,
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Rating: - A comprehensive and insightful biography
Many experts consider Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America the best book ever written on democracy and on the United States. Published in two series of separate volumes, in 1835 and 1840, Tocqueville's political classic is filled with an astonishing number of penetrating insights and acute observations on the nature of democracy, the character of Americans and the exceptional nation they were carving out of the wilderness in the 1800s. Many of Tocqueville's remarkably prescient judgments ... Read More
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